· In We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo juxtaposes different realities. Despite critiques for exploiting stereotypes about Africa and the experiences of African immigrants in the U.S., NoViolet forces readers to face undeniable truths. Trending. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a . In NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, the child narrator, Darling, is forced to flee her native Zimbabwe amid political turmoil, and finds herself now growing up and searching for identity in Detroit Michigan, USA. Despite her repeated attempts to "Americanise" and fit in, Darling finds herself in a state of perpetually ambiguous identity: no longer Zimbabwean, and never quite American, she finds her . We Need New Names is a work of fiction by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo. It’s her debut novel, which garnered critical praise upon its publication in Bulawayo’s narrative centers around year-old Darling and her group of friends, in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise, as the group perceptively observes life around them. When Darling later moves to America (a hope she’s long .
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names questions the meaning of home and what our relationship to that is as we grow older. It's a coming of age story of a girl named Darling growing up in a make-shift town in Africa after her family were expelled from their home. Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby o. NoViolet Bulawayo. NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of the novel, We Need New Names. 'His Middle Name Was Not Jesus' is forthcoming in the Caine Prize for African Writing anthology, The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories, published in July More about the author →.
We Need New Names is a work of fiction by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo. It’s her debut novel, which garnered critical praise upon its publication in Bulawayo’s narrative centers around year-old Darling and her group of friends, in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise, as the group perceptively observes life around them. When Darling later moves to America (a hope she’s long had), she’s confronted with the America of her dreams as it clashes with her reality as an. by Rebecca Scherm. NoViolet Bulawayo ’s debut novel, We Need New Names (Little, Brown), opens in Paradise, the Zimbabwe shantytown where Darling and her mother have lived since their house was bulldozed by the government. Starting in , the government program Operation Murambatsvina (“Clear out Rubbish”) destroyed entire neighborhoods in a few hours, leaving more than , people homeless. NoViolet Bulawayo 's new novel, We Need New Names, is an extension of her Caine prize-winning short story, " Hitting Budapest ", and yes, it has fraudulent preachers and is partly set in a soul.
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